Zero Crazy Seat Belt Results – Fall 2018

During the fall of 2018, Teens in the Driver Seat (TDS) launched the 6^th annual Zero Crazy activity to increase seat belt use among teen drivers and passengers at TDS schools. The activity consists of a pre-observation, three weeks of messaging, a post-observation, and a pizza party for the schools that completed and returned all observation data. The activity was offered to all program schools. Sixty-three schools signed up to complete the activity, forty-four completed the pre-observations and forty-two of those returned all data.

High school student teams were asked to observe teen drivers and passengers and log if they did or did not have their seat belts fastened. Junior High student teams were asked to observe teen passengers and log seat belt use. Some high schools with a low percentage of teen drivers also chose to count only teen passengers.

Texas High Schools have reached over 90% seat belt usage rate by teen drivers.

All Vehicles with Teen Drivers Weighted Aggregate

	Pre-Counts	Post-Counts	% Change
All 2018 Schools – Vehicles with Teen Drivers
Teen Driver Sampling	4,648	5,440
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	85.19%	88.46%	+3.27%
Teen Passenger Sampling	3,152	3,489
Total % of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	76.84%	80.57%	+3.73%
First Year Schools (i.e. taken from the first year schools completed the activity 2013-2018)
Teen Driver Sampling	12,071	11,336
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	82.48%	85.09%	+2.61%
Teen Passenger Sampling	8,256	7,049
Total % of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	71.65%	74.58%	+2.94%
Multi-Year Schools last year completed (i.e. taken from the latest year schools which have completed the activity 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 years)
Teen Driver Sampling	3,547	3,766
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	87.48%	92.21%	+4.73%
Teen Passenger Sampling	2,302	2,315
Total % of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	78.74%	86.58%	+7.84%

 

Texas Vehicles with Teen Drivers – Weighted Aggregate

 

	Pre-Counts	Post-Counts	% Change
Texas 2018 participants (14 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	89.28%	90.74%	+1.47%
Total % of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	82.08%	79.31%	-2.77%
Texas First Year Schools (i.e. taken from the first year schools completed the activity 2013-2018, 31 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	85.34%	89.38%	+0.65%
Total % of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	73.43%	75.81%	+2.38%
Texas Multi-Year Schools last year completed (i.e. taken from the latest year which have completed the activity 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 years, 14 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	89.46%	93.91%	+4.45%
Total % of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	85.95%	89.32%	+3.37%

Georgia Vehicles with Teen Drivers – Weighted Aggregate

	Pre-Counts	Post-Counts	% Change
Georgia 2018 participants (11 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	86.67%	90.12%	+3.44%
Total # of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	73.46%	83.97%	+10.51%
Georgia First Year Schools (i.e. taken from the first year schools completed the activity 2014-2018, 19 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	80.21%	81.47%	+1.26%
Total # of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	66.55%	72.72%	+6.18%
Georgia Multi-Year Schools last year completed (i.e. taken from the latest year schools which have completed the activity 2, 3, or 4 years, 5 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	90.73%	96.79%	+6.06%
Total # of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	75.22%	89.61%	+14.39%

 

Nebraska Vehicles with Teen Drivers – Weighted Aggregate

	Pre-Counts	Post-Counts	% Change
Nebraska 2018 participants (7 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	69.91%	74.19%	+4.27%
Total # of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	63.85%	72.07%	+8.22%
Nebraska First Year Schools (i.e. taken from the first year schools completed the activity 2014-2018, 15 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	63.09%	72.35%	+7.02%
Total # of Teen Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	59.51%	59.43%	-0.08%
Nebraska Multi-Year Schools last year completed (i.e. taken from the latest year schools which have completed the activity 2, 3, 4, or 5 years, 6 schools)
Total % of Teen Drivers Wearing a Seat Belt	77.63%	78.73%	+1.10%
Total # of Passengers Wearing a Seat Belt	65.30%	76.39%	+11.09%

 

Multi-Year Schools, 2015 – 2018 data (not enough data pre-2015)Data taken from multi-year schools (one or more previous year(s) of activity) from displayed year.

 

Questions regarding data may be directed to Stacey Tisdale at s-tisdale@tti.tamu.edu or Russell Henk at r-henk@tti.tamu.edu.